USN-1149-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Multiple memory vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser rendering engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. CVE-2011-2364, CVE-2011-2365, CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376 Martin Barbella discovered that under certai...

Nations Struggle to Define Cyberwar Amidst Legal Research Findings

The likelihood of an unprovoked cyberattack is low, according to extensive new legal research featured in an upcoming issue of the British journal INFO. This research explores a 150-year-old series of Geneva Conventions related to cyberwar. However, defining "cyberwar" remains elusive, and reachi...

Memory corruption

gcc 4.3.x does not generate a cld instruction while compiling functions used for string manipulation such as memcpy and memmove on x86 and i386, which can prevent the direction flag DF from being reset in violation of ABI conventions and cause data to be copied in the wrong direction during signa...

CVE-2008-1367

gcc 4.3.x does not generate a cld instruction while compiling functions used for string manipulation such as memcpy and memmove on x86 and i386, which can prevent the direction flag DF from being reset in violation of ABI conventions and cause data to be copied in the wrong direction during signa...

CVE-2008-1367

gcc 4.3.x does not generate a cld instruction while compiling functions used for string manipulation such as memcpy and memmove on x86 and i386, which can prevent the direction flag DF from being reset in violation of ABI conventions and cause data to be copied in the wrong direction during signa...

CVE-2008-1367

CVE-2008-1367 corresponds to a Linux kernel issue where gcc 4.3.x may not emit a cld instruction while compiling string manipulation code (e.g., memcpy/memmove), preventing the direction flag (DF) from being reset and potentially causing memory copy in the wrong direction during signal handling. ...

CVE-2008-1367

gcc 4.3.x does not generate a cld instruction while compiling functions used for string manipulation such as memcpy and memmove on x86 and i386, which can prevent the direction flag DF from being reset in violation of ABI conventions and cause data to be copied in the wrong direction during signa...

PR06-08: BEA Plumtree portal internal hostname disclosure vulnerability

PR06-08: BEA Plumtree portal internal hostname disclosure vulnerability Description: BEA Plumtree portal is vulnerable to a internal hostname disclosure vulnerability. The internal hostname of the server hosting BEA Plumtree portal is always included at the bottom of every requested HTML page...

CVE-2005-3177

Affected software : Microsoft Windows 2000 (before Update Rollup 1 for SP4), Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Vulnerable component : CHKDSK running in fix mode. Root cause : CHKDSK does not properly handle security descriptors when the master file table contains a large number of files or whe...

CVE-2001-0795

Perception LiteServe 1.25 allows remote attackers to obtain source code of CGI scripts via URLs that contain MS-DOS conventions such as 1 upper case letters or 2 8.3 file names...

CVE-2001-0795

Perception LiteServe 1.25 is affected by CVE-2001-0795. Remote attackers can obtain the source code of CGI scripts by requesting URLs that contain MS‑DOS conventions, such as uppercase letters or 8.3 file names. The PT-2001-1972 advisory notes a vulnerability in Perception LiteServe 1.25 and prov...